Buena Vista, the Battle of Palo
Alto, and the Capture of Monterey. In some cases, there are two
representations of the same scene, taken from different points of view.
These have all been reproduced in colored lithography by the best
artists of Paris. The literary part of the work, comprising very careful
and particular accounts of these events, is excellently written--so
compactly and perspicuously, with so thorough a knowledge and so pure a
taste, as to be deserving of applause among models in military history.
Mr. Kendall passed about two years in Europe for the purpose of
superintending its publication, and its success must have amply
satisfied the most sanguine anticipations with which he entered upon its
composition.

New England is largely represented among the leading editors of the
South and West, and it is a little remarkable that the two papers most
conspicuous as representatives of the idiosyncrasies which most obtain
in their respective states--the _Picayune_ and George D. Prentice's
_Louisville Journal_--are conducted by men from sections most
antagonistical in interest and feeling, men who have carried with them
to their new homes and who still cherish there all the reciprocated
affections by which they were connected with the North. When George W.
Kendall leaves New Orleans for his summer wandering in our more
comfortable and safe latitudes, an ovation of editors awaits him at
every town along the Mississippi, and, crossing the mountains, he is the
most popular member of the craft in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New-York, or Boston--an evidence that the strifes of party may exist
without any personal ill-feeling, if the editor never forgets in his own
person to sustain the character of a gentleman.

WASHINGTON.

It is a truth, illustrated in daily experience, and yet rarely noted or
acted upon, that, in all that concerns the appreciation of personal
character or ability, the instinctive impressions of a community are
quicker in their action, more profoundly appreciant, and more reliable,
than the intellectual perceptions of the ablest men in the community.
Upon all those subjects that are of moral apprehension, society seems to
possess an intelligence of its own, infinitely sensitive in its
delicacy, and almost conclusive in the certainty of its determinations;
indirect, and unconscious in its operation, yet unshunnable in sagacity,
and as strong and confident as nature itself. The h